Button-fastening.



ALBERT AARON AND ARTHUR OATHOU'I,

TO EDWIN L. MEYERS AND DAVID F.

MEYEBS 8c SON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

O]? GLOVERSVILLE, NEW Y IRK, ASSIGNORS MEYER, COPAR'INERS AS FIRM OF LOUIS BUTTON-FASTENING.

Application filed February 9, 1911.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1911.

Serial No. 607,607.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT AARON and ARTHUR OATHOUT, citizens of the United States, and residents of Gloversville, county of Fulton, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to button fastenings and has for its object to provide a means for attaching buttons to garments and other objects of wearing apparel, which shall at once be strong and durable as well as easily and economically applied.

We find our invention particularly useful in connection with gloves and have thus illustrated a preferred form in the accompanying drawings.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view from the front of a usual kid glove; Fig. 2 is a partial section taken in the direction of the arrow and greatly enlarged, along the line 22 of Fig. 1 and shows this form of our invention in detail; Fig. 3 is a view similarly enlarged, of a part of the glove taken from the inside and shows how the button is attached to the glove flap; and Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 showing the glove flap stitched to the glove proper as it is in the finished love.

In the drawings the blank from which glove a is cut is provided with an elongated, somewhat semi-circular flap or tongue b'left loose and unattached as to its curved edge to the glove after the edge 0 has been turned inwardly and stitched. In the glove adjacent to the stitching d and positioned so as to be covered by the flap 6 when folded flat against the glove is inserted and clenched an eyelet e. short piece of tape 9 threaded throu h its two holes from below and the ends 0 said tape passed through the eyelet 6. These ends are then slotted so as to slip over a second eyelet h which is then inserted and clenched in the flap 6. If the two eyelets e and h be so placed that one will be super- The button 1 has a posed upon the other when the flap is finally stitched down as shown in Fig. 4, the length of tape 9 will besuch that the button f will be just comfortably free to be manipulated and engaged with the butl onhole '5. In the case of thin gloves a small scrap of kid j may be placed on the un or side of flap b just before the eyelet is ins rted; this scrap 7' serves to reinforce the flap ind make it more difficult for eyelet h to be drawn out. The flap b is finally turned d1 wn u on the inside of the glove and stit shed llghtly at k to the inside of the glove, the stitches not being permitted to go through. We have shown our invention as applied to a twohole button, but it is obvic us that any usual button having holes of su tiicient size could be employed by increasing the number of tapes, or by running them in a slightly different way.

Buttons of any preferr :d size and tapes of any preferred weight, color or material may be employed. The ends of the tape being held by the edges of the eyelet h the strain of the fastening is well distributed; furthermore, eyelet h b1lllg immediately under and against the eye: at 6, very little of the strain upon the tape is effective to loosen or tear out either of said eyelets from the glove structure.

Our improved fastening is obviously very simple, easily applied and inexpensive. As to durability, if properly applied and button and tape be wisely chi son, the fastening should outlast the life of she glove or other structure to which it is at1 ached.

While we have descril ed our improved fastening as applied to a glove, it may be applied to almost all artic les of wearing apparel, and with particular advantage to such articles as require ,9 reat' durability or strength, or both, in the f tstenings.

Having described our i1 vention we claim:

A button fastening con prising in combination with the article to which the button is to be attached, an eyelet in said article, a

flap attached to said art icle on the under side thereof, an eyelet in said flap substam tially beneath said first named eyelet and a set our hands in the presence of two subtape passed throu h the holes in said butscribing witnesses.

ton and through t e first named eyelet, the ALBERT AARON.

ends e f-said tape-being-held by said second ARTHUR OATHOUT.

named eyelet, substantially as and for the I Witnesses: purpose described. WENDELL P. MURRAY,

In testimony whereof we have hereunto SELAR Zea.

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